This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II ). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

Die Sozialordung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein Gefüge der unterschiedlichsten Komponenten: Gesetze und Grundlagen, Partner und Konkurrenten, Politikbereiche und Strukturen, Themen und Problemfelder. Die Sozialwissenschaftler F. Lothar Neumann und Klaus Schaper stellen die wichtigsten...

This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...